It's funny how the internet era has given us new cliches and urban legends, like that of the "haunted game cartridge."

In 2011, someone calling himself Cosbydaf posted a story about playing a copy of the 1988 NES Godzilla game. The game turns out to be aware of the player, and possessed of a demonic fury which will test the player's soul.

An unfinished sequel, "Godzilla Replay," followed in 2012 and 2013. It's nice to look at but so far the story isn't very interesting. Lots of sprite work was done which has not yet appeared.

The "NES Godzilla Creepypasta" is now being accurately adapted into an actual video game (by Psyke), which is pretty wild. Gameplay is adapted from the 1988 NES game, before veering off into its own dark territory. A demo is available of the first stages.

So far the game adaptation even improves on the original story with its graphics, which are all (I think) at the same resolution, so far, and have believably SNES-like water and fire effects. The original doubled the resolution of its elements inconsistently, and I'm not seeing that in the game adaptation yet.